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BiographyMichael Lapsley
Born in New Zealand on the 2nd of June, 1949. At the age of seven, Michael entered the Society of Sacred Mission and then dropped his first name “Allan” to…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
ACT IN UNITY! Compatriots, allies and democratic supporters of the heroic struggle of the people of South Africa, Comrades, The names of the founding…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
Christiaan de Wet was born at Leeuwkop near Smithfield, Orange Free State, on 7 October 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping…
Qonda Hoho
Qonda Hoho was born 1956 in Bowden village Lady Frere(Eastern Cape).An MK operative who who was shot dead during a shoot-out with members of the SAP on 4…
BiographyLouise Latsky
Latsky was an author and zoologist. She studied at the University of Stellenbosch, and was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at this university. She…
BiographySally Gross
Born on August 22, 1953 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Sally Gross is one of the most challenging and important figures in our country’s history. Gross was born…
BiographyAshley La Grange
"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the Dutch Reformed…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…
Johannes Mashego Segogela
Johannes Mashego Segogela was born in 1936, in Sekhukhuneland, Transvaal. Segogela trained as a boiler-maker. He had no formal art training. For many years he…
BiographyMartha Mohlakoane
Mohlakoane was born in 1906 to a family of farm squatters. She worked in domestic service for 22 years. Mohlakoane joined the African National Congress in 1939…
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in…
BiographyMakhaya Ntini
Makhaya Ntini was born on 6 July 1977. He grew up in a small village in the Eastern Cape called Mdingi. Ntini is a product of the United Cricket Board's…
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
Anderson Khumani “Dan” Ganyile’s was born in 1935 in Bizana District, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He attended St John’s School in Umtata and then Lovedale…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… the launch of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) in 1989. A nation-wide civil disobedience campaign was staged …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
Michael Shivute
Mr Michael Shivute was detained on 16th June 1969 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and was held at the Ondagwa police cells in South West Africa where…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Global Preparatory Meeting of Parliamentarians against apartheid, 17-18 August 1987, New Delhi
The Honble Prime Minister, Distinguished Delegates, It is a great honour for me to extend warm greetings to this timely conference of Parliamentarians…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affirm the very humanity of the oppressed…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
The struggle of the oppressed people of South Africa is taking place within an international context of transition to the Socialist system, of the breakdown of…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national army - Umkhonto we Sizwe - was born to resume the armed…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Unveiling of the Tombstone of Oliver Tambo, 19 April 1998, Wattville, Benoni
Master of ceremonies; Our dear Adelaide and family; Comrades and friends, The main speaker on this occasion is Thabo Mbeki, the President of the movement to…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 24 May 1983, Volume 80
Transcript. Evidence from Bishop Desmond Bilo Tutu, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 24 May 1983, Volume 79
Transcript of Volume 79, evidence from Bishop Desmond Tutu, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 28 March 1983, Volume 59
Excerpt from transcript of Volume 59, with evidence from Dr Khoza E M Mgojo, President of the Methodist Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa,…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 14 March 1983, Volume 46
Transcript of Volumes 46, evidence from Reverend Peter John Storey, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 11 March 1983, Volume 45
Transcript of Volumes 45, evidence from Reverend Peter John Storey, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 29 October 1982, Volume 20
Transcript. Evidence from Edward Phillip Cain to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 6 September 1982, Volume 7 and Volume 8
Continued evidence from Eugene Lesley Roelofse to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr…